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Sharing Coolant sensor with Microsquirt

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:14 am
by hwright
Hi,
I have installed Microsquirt on my Honda Vtwin bike.
I am using the stock coolant sensor and want to leave the instrument cluster gauge connected. Apparently this means I have to remove the microsquirt bias resistor. All the information I can find is for the normal megasquirt. Where is the bias resistor on the microsquirt? (picture if possible!) Also is there another way to share the gauges without me butchering the Microsquirt with a soldering iron?

Cheers.

Re: Sharing Coolant sensor with Microsquirt

Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:31 pm
by hwright
I have found that the sensor gauge is connected to 12V from the cluster so probabily not possible for me to share.

I will just have the coolant gauge disconnected.

Still it would be good if someone who knows could post here to let others know how to remove/change the Bias resistor in Microsquirt

Re: Sharing Coolant sensor with Microsquirt

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:14 am
by Matt Cramer
I'd really recommend adding a second temperature sensor. The only times I've seen a factory ECU share a sensor with a gauge was when the ECU controlled the gauge directly. I suspect they did this to minimize noise issues or potential failure modes.